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Colleges offer to pay students to take a gap year

Image: Lydia Collins
Freshman Lydia Collins, 19, looks out from her dorm building at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., on Thursday. Collins took a year after high school and worked in Ecuador through Global Citizen before starting college.Elise Amendola / AP